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     Title: Chocolate Eclipse
Categories: Cheesecakes, Chocolate
     Yield: 1 servings

     2 tb Butter or margarine
     2 oz Unsweetened chocolate
     2 c  Buttermilk or sour milk
     1 ts Vanilla extract
 2 1/2 c  Unbleached flour
 2 1/4 c  Packed brown sugar; divided
     3 ts Baking powder
     1 ts Baking soda
   1/2 ts Salt
     1 c  Semisweet chocolate chips
          ; optional
   1/2 c  Unsweetened cocoa plus
     2 tb Unsweetened cocoa
 2 1/2 c  Boiling water

 Recipe by: Still Life with Menu by Mollie Katzen
 Preheat oven to 350.  Grease a 9" x 13" baking pan.
 Melt butter and unsweetened chocolate together.  This is
 most easily done in a microwave, or in a double boiler over
 hot water.  In the meantime, heat buttermilk gently in a
 saucepan until just a little warmer than body temperature.
 Do NOT boil or cook it.
 In a large mixing bowl combine flour, 1 cup of the brown
 sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt.  Mix well,
 using your hands if necessary to break up any lumps and
 achieve a uniform mixture.  Stir in chocolate chips, if
 using.  Pour the butter/chocolate mixture and the
 buttermilk into the dry ingredients and stir until well
 combined.  Spread into prepared pan.
 Combine remaining 1 1/4 cups of brown sugar with
 unsweetened cocoa in a small bowl.  Sprinkle this over the
 batter in the pan as evenly as possible.  Next, pour
 boiling water gently and evenly over the sugar/cocoa
 mixture; do NOT stir.  It will look as if you are making a
 mud pie; not to worry.  Place the pan immediatley into the
 preheated oven.
 Bake for 30 - 35 minutes, or until the center feels firm to
 the touch. Watch carefully, as it tends to overbrown around
 the edges.  Cool at least 15 minutes before serving.
 The finished result is a cake with a fudgy sauce hidden
 underneath. When serving, invert the cake so that the fudgy
 sauce becomes a topping.
 Fantastic served warm (within 1 - 2 hours of baking) with
 vanilla ice cream or frozen yogurt.  Also good cold; the
 fudge sauce tastes like chocolate pudding.
 Notes:This cake tastes wonderfully rich, but in reality is
 relatively low in fat.  A great celebration cake.JM

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